Mr. David Hay
Dallas County Community College District
R.L. Thorton, Jr. Building
701 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75202-3299

OR99-2928

Dear Mr. Hay:

You ask whether certain information is subject to required public disclosure under chapter
552 of the Government Code. Your request was assigned ID# 129667.

The Dallas County Community College District (the "district") received a request for
information regarding a former employee of the district. You claim that portions of the
requested information are excepted from disclosure under section 552.117 of the Government
Code. We assume that you have released the reminder of the requested information. We
have considered the exception you claim and have reviewed the submitted information.

Section 552.117 excepts from disclosure the home addresses, telephone numbers, and social
security numbers of current or former officials or employees of a governmental body who
request that this information be kept confidential under section 552.024. The district may not,
however, withhold this information for a current or former official or employee who made a
request for confidentiality under section 552.024 after the request for this information was
made. Whether a particular piece of information is public must be determined at the time the
request for it is made. Open Records Decision No. 530 at 5 (1989). You have submitted to
this office information that demonstrates that the former district employee elected to keep her
home address, telephone number, and social security number confidential prior to the date on
which the district received the request for information. Thus, section 552.117 excepts the
former employee's home address, telephone number, and social security number from
disclosure, and the district must withhold this information on the former employee's behalf.

We are resolving this matter with an informal letter ruling rather than with a published open
records decision. This ruling is limited to the particular records at issue under the facts
presented to us in this request and should not be relied upon as a previous determination
regarding any other records. If you have questions about this ruling, please contact our
office.